uoooo wrote:
I agree Michigan deserved to be there but last year SHOULD be irrelevant. It was supposed to be about your body of work this year with the main factor being conference champs. As we know because of Furman and the Big East, that is not the case. They definitely used history to decide the field this year. The NCAA failed by not providing correct guidelines on how to qualify and Michigan suffers.
They used history indirectly by using history "to judge strength of conference." But they didn't just look at a team's NCAA finish last year and say they should go. Otherwise Michigan would be in, but they are not -- unfortunate circumstances of having to miss conference meet.